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Author(s) -
Michelina Ginobbi
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1944.tb10557.x
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Winge (1942) has published extensive BCG-material from Denmark including a large number of children; similarly have Dahl, Hertzberg and Refsum in their preliminary report from The Bureau of Public Health in Oslo in 1940 included 637 children from 0-14 years of age. However both these publications lack control material, but both conclude that the vaccination has an advantageous effect. Part of the material from tlle Oslo Bureau of Public Health is included in the material to be described below. Although they fall somewhat outside the field of the present investigation Sdeel’s (1935) and Heimbeck’s (1936) results with BCG-vaccination should be mentioned. Their material consists only of adults, but is one of the fundamental investigations which clearly demonstrate the immunising effect of the vaccine. Both Scheel’s material of medical students and Heimbeck’s of student nurses show a higher tuberculosis morbidity in the tuberculin negative than in the tuberculin positive. Among Scheel’s students the tuberculosis morbidity falls to 1.87 yo after vaccination, while i t is 4.78 yo for the non-vaccinated tuberculin negative. Heimbeck’s student nurses had 2.8 yo tuberculosis morbidity after vaccination and positive tuberculin reaction as compared to 34.3 yo for the non-vacinated. The mortality figures for his material were 0.4 yo and 3.6 yo respectively.